JezA;613105 Wrote: > Sean Adams come back!!! > > The guy goes away for five minutes, and look what's happening! Somebody > kludges up an iffy USB mod for a Touch so you can connect it to an > iffier USB to iffy s/pdif converter to get it into a DAC (of which > there was one already inside the Touch).. through all sorts of iffy > cables and with all sorts of iffy aftermarket power-supplies no doubt. > What a messy rats-nest. > > The Transporter is the way to do it. Finish. Or a network player like a > Linn DS, or Naim NDX. Move all that lovely music data losslessly over > your network and let a DAC clock it out directly to it's heart's > content.
To be fair, Slim Devices didn't invent the digital transport. That concept was already there, the idea or picking and choosing your DAC. It would be fair to say that a lot of problems have been solved. Everyone would agree transport+DACs are bit perfect and most would agree that transport and connection related jitter have been solved with the better DACs. However, I think there was an opportunity for Slim Devices to license their protocols. They could have become the new SPDIF. Imagine in-built squeezebox-like hardware in every player out there. You don't need to charge much for the license if you get the volume. Darren -- darrenyeats http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_listmania/203-7606506-5721503. SB3, SB Touch SqueezeControl for Android ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84903 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
